More than 100 civilians killed in Assad regime bombardment of Eastern Ghouta

In 2013 hundreds died after the Assad regime bombarded the area with chemical weapons. Since then, eastern Ghouta has been under siege.
Few months ago the Assad regime and Russia, declared that ISIS is defeated.

“There’s some fighters left but they’re few. Small numbers is all I can say,” said a Syrian army commander of the remaining militants near
Albu Kamal. “Some were killed and some ran away. They went toward eastern or northern villages.” Source

More than 700 people have been killed during the last three months in this area.
Yesterday, five hospitals were bombed. More than 100 dead civilians. Hundreds wounded.
So, who exactly Assad fights now and why is it necessary to bomb hospitals, killing hundreds of innocent civilians?

“We are standing before the massacre of the 21st century,” said a doctor in eastern Ghouta. “If the massacre of the 1990s was Srebrenica,
and the massacres of the 1980s were Halabja and Sabra and Shatila, then eastern Ghouta is the massacre of this century right now.”
“All these humanitarian and rights organisations, all that is nonsense. So is terrorism. What is a greater terrorism than killing civilians with all
sorts of weapons? Is this a war? It’s not a war. It’s called a massacre.” Source

How many of his own people will Assad murder before he steps down? It is clear that the rebels won't back down, and they shouldn't. Tyranny should
be fought with full force. Assad murdered entire families by the thousands, he doesn't get a free pass out of this massacre. In my opinion it's only
a matter of time till one (or several) of his own men will say 'enough is enough' and put him down like the dog he is.
Question is, how many more of these pictures we will see before it happens?

You'd think the remnants of the "moderate" opposition would change their propaganda campaign. 6 years of the same crap that nobody except the ignorant
buy.

Soon this horrible war will be over, the opposition scum dead and the refugees can finally go home, like they did following the liberation of
Aleppo.

Then Syrians can rebuild their country that has been destroyed by foreign interests. Of course not one person in the European and American
establishments who are directly responsible for all this will never answer for their crimes.

Couldn't agree more with you. Everybody forgot about this war long ago. This is somewhat understandable as this war seems to last so long that these
photos don't affect anyone anymore as they are just a drop in the sea of suffering which is Syria.
The guy above you seems to have his justification all sorted out.

Two reports conducted by the Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, used extrapolation based on epidemiology, and were
published in The Lancet. The first, published in 2004, estimated that at least 100,000 Iraqis had been killed as a result of the war.

The second, published in 2006, suggested the figure had risen to near 650,000. The British and US governments criticised the findings but those
involved defended the methodology. In 2015, a report by Physicians for Social Responsibility suggested the total may have passed one million.

Once again

“The unfortunate death of civilians is a fact of war that weighs heavy on our hearts,” said Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon.

Where is your bleeding heart and calls for justice for the Iraqis? That is Iraq alone by the way

You can look at this two ways, either Assad is a mad man and the "revolution" that many believe was a war by proxy was legitimate..

On the other side if so many people hated Assad the country would have fell due to the revolution and whatever was going to take his place would
have!!, I can only think there are a huge amount of people that still want him as leader and that are fighting to the death.

So what camp do you believe?, a democratically elected leader supported by his people fighting third party opposition of outsiders and mercenaries
that are hell bent on turning what was once a trading hub where all faiths and religions got on just fine in a major city like Damascus into god knows
what..

Or is he a mad man that is murdering his people?.. I know enough Syrians to know what I believe is happening here.

Believe nothing what you read and only some of what you see comes to mind..

Guys ISIS where meant to have won in this situation years ago, what you see now is the unscripted second faze to attempt to gain access to the country
cart blanche. It is a total cluster f#ck...

Ironically, Turkey was just accused of launching chemical weapons attacks in Syria, too, though in the Kurdish areas. Here's an ATS thread about it
(HERE) and there are a lot of articles online about it.

So who should we believe here? In fact, why should we believe anyone's story?

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